Robert Cumming

Capturing print events

Matlab print events can be trapped by users to enable easy printout customization.

July 8, 2015 3 Comments Read More »

copyobj behavior change in HG2

the behavior of Matlab's copyobj function changed in R2014b (HG2), and callbacks are no longer copied.

May 13, 2015 No Comments Read More »

Transparency in uicontrols

Matlab uicontrols' CData property can be customized to provide background transparency.

December 10, 2014 5 Comments Read More »

uicontextmenu performance

Matlab uicontextmenus are not automatically deleted with their associated objects, leading to leaks and slow-downs.

April 2, 2014 5 Comments Read More »

Maurizio (12 days 1 hour ago): Hi Yair, how can I define a callback for a cell/row/column selection? In createTable you can define a data changed callback, but if you simply select a cell, how can you define a...
Donato (14 days 2 hours ago): Hi Yair, it seems that in Matlab R2019b this method doesn’t work. Have you some solutions? Thanks.
Maurizio (15 days 12 hours ago): Thank you Yair, I’ve supposed it, but I was not sure. Maurizio
Yair Altman (16 days 2 hours ago): headers is a simple cell array of strings (column header names). I thought that was pretty obvious from the context… Additional types of uitable customizations are...
Maurizio (16 days 3 hours ago): Hi Yair, i’m trying to use your code example to change the colors of a table cell, but I have a doubt: in the following part of your code: % Yellow background for significant...
Mike (19 days 4 hours ago): When I use the suggestion above to set the ‘defaultAxesCreateFcn 217;, it works as expected in that the axes toolbar is gone and the default behavior is to zoom. However,...
Yair Altman (32 days 10 hours ago): @Maurizio – instead of using the integrated Panel title, you can use a separate label control (uicontrol('Style','text',...) or a JLabel). Alternatively, you can customize...
Maurizio Giardina (32 days 12 hours ago): Hi Yair, make transparent panel background is what I need for my application, but I have a problem:the panels I use have also a title, and the background of the title is...
Menno (36 days 6 hours ago): Dear Yair, As an experienced Matlab user, I have been following your site for quite some time now. With your great series of articles on the Toolstrip, I managed to build a...
Iliya Romm (55 days 10 hours ago): To anybody attempting this in R2019b (and later?): unless you specify the image size, nothing will be shown!. A solution is presented in this answer str = [''];
Yair Altman (59 days 11 hours ago): @Don – you can control the components of controllib.widget.Slider using its internal properties, as follows: >> warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % avoid warning >>...
Don (59 days 13 hours ago): I do not see a visible (on/off) property. Is there a way hide/unhide these, specifically controllib.widget.Slider. I currently just use Position and move it out of visible range. Also,...
Philip Howard (66 days 6 hours ago): Yair, Thank you for your post. Is it possible to use Matlab functions inside the SQL query for method using sqlite-jdbc? I see here that you can create custom callback...
Yair Altman (74 days 11 hours ago): The default Java Look&Feel for UI buttons paints the border together with the contents, and apparently prevents changing both of them together (reference). Changing to a...
Jacob (74 days 21 hours ago): So, I’m having trouble finding information on this. If I change the border of a button, then change the background color, the border resets. Then I am not able to change the...